Can't burn dvd with K3b

Using SuSE Pro 9.3...can't burn a data dvd with K3b. Cd's are no
problem. The process says it completes successfully but it only takes
about 5 seconds to do it. Can't create a dvd iso either...does the same
thing. Is this possible? Surely it is.

Lance

Lance Reynolds adjusted his/her tinfoil beanie to post:

> Using SuSE Pro 9.3...can't burn a data dvd with K3b. Cd's are no
> problem. The process says it completes successfully but it only takes
> about 5 seconds to do it. Can't create a dvd iso either...does the
> same
> thing. Is this possible? Surely it is.
>
> Lance

Sounds like something wrong with maybe "growisofs"????

It looks like the cd side is ok so it would be using growisofs to do its
stuff, and as it is taking only a couple of seconds then it looks like
that could be a good place to start looking.

have you got it installed?

If yes then try launching k3b from a console and see if there are any
error messages while it is running.

HTH
--
Mark
Twixt hill and high water
N. Wales, UK
Novell Support Forums SysOp

baskitcaise wrote:
> Sounds like something wrong with maybe "growisofs"????
> have you got it installed?

Looking at the K3b settings, v5.21 of growisofs is installed in.

> If yes then try launching k3b from a console and see if there are any
> error messages while it is running.

Here's what I get in the shell:
k3b: ERROR (KFileItem) lstat failed.

Lance

Lance Reynolds adjusted his/her tinfoil beanie to post:

>
>
> baskitcaise wrote:
>> Sounds like something wrong with maybe "growisofs"????
>> have you got it installed?
>
> Looking at the K3b settings, v5.21 of growisofs is installed in.
>
>> If yes then try launching k3b from a console and see if there are any
>> error messages while it is running.
>
> Here's what I get in the shell:
> k3b: ERROR (KFileItem) lstat failed.
>
> Lance

Hi Lance,

Well according to the docs on lstat:

LStat gets information about the link specified in Path, and stores it
in Info, which is of type stat. Contrary to FStat, it stores
information about the link, not about the file the link points to. The
function returns True if the call was successful, False if the call
failed.

So I wonder if there is a symlink wrong somewhere, not 100% sure though
if this refers to k3b`s files or the image you are trying to create???

HTH

--
Mark
Twixt hill and high water
N. Wales, UK
Novell Support Forums SysOp

Here's the debug output from trying to create just an iso image. In the
mkisofs section, it states that the file I'm trying to burn is too large.
The actual file size is 4.3(4,613,734,400) so it seems ok.

Lance

Devices
-----------------------
SONY DVD RW DRU-800A KY01 (/dev/sr0, ) at /media/ [CD-R; CD-RW; CD-ROM;
DVD-ROM; DVD-R; DVD-RW; DVD+R; DVD+RW] [DVD-ROM; DVD-R Sequential; DVD-RW
Restricted Overwrite; DVD-RW Sequential; DVD+RW; DVD+R; DVD+R Double Layer;
CD-ROM; CD-R; CD-RW] [SAO; TAO; RAW; SAO/R16; RAW/R96P; RAW/R96R]
LITEON CD-ROM LTN486S YUS8 (/dev/hdc, ) at /media/cdrom [CD-ROM] [CD-ROM]
[None]

System
-----------------------
K3b Version: 0.11.22cvs
KDE Version: 3.4.0 Level "b"
QT Version: 3.3.4
Kernel: 2.6.11.4-21.8-default

mkisofs
-----------------------
INFO: UTF-8 character encoding detected by locale settings.
Assuming UTF-8 encoded filenames on source filesystem,
use -input-charset to override.
/usr/bin/mkisofs: Value too large for defined data type.
File /media/usbdisk/archive/sys5/data/data.dar is too large - ignoring
Total translation table size: 0
Total rockridge attributes bytes: 169
Total directory bytes: 0
Path table size(bytes): 10
Max brk space used 0
175 extents written (0 MB)

mkisofs comand:
-----------------------
/usr/bin/mkisofs -gui -graft-points -volid K3b data project -volset -appid
K3B THE CD KREATOR VERSION 0.11.22cvs (C) 2003 SEBASTIAN TRUEG AND THE K3B
TEAM -publisher -preparer K3b - Version 0.11.22cvs -sysid LINUX
-volset-size 1 -volset-seqno 1 -sort /tmp/kde-lance/k3bXZ19Wa.tmp
-rational-rock -hide-list /tmp/kde-lance/k3bDG2Kdc.tmp
-full-iso9660-filenames -iso-level 1
-path-list /tmp/kde-lance/k3bgSRnSa.tmp /home/lance/.kde/share/apps/k3b/temp/dummydir0/

Lance Reynolds wrote:

> Here's the debug output from trying to create just an iso image. In
> the mkisofs section, it states that the file I'm trying to burn is too
> large. The actual file size is 4.3(4,613,734,400) so it seems ok.
[...]

If I remember correctly, you can only burn around 4.5GB to a DVD due
to overhead. Remember that the 4.7GB claimed size is raw.

If possible, try with a dual-layer disk.


B

Lance Reynolds adjusted his/her tinfoil beanie to post:

> -----------------------
> K3b Version: 0.11.22cvs


Could be the version that might be causing problems here, I am on 0.12.3
here and it works fine with cd/dvd`s

Can you try another burning program like cdroast or even from the
commandline to see if it might be a k3b bug in that version?


--
Mark
Twixt hill and high water
N. Wales, UK
Novell Support Forums SysOp

novell-numpty@mailtrap.org.uk wrote:
> If I remember correctly, you can only burn around 4.5GB to a DVD due
> to overhead. Remember that the 4.7GB claimed size is raw.

Looks like you're on to something here. I did get one to burn with
around 400MB of data. That's great but now I'll have to recreate my
KDar archives with a custom slice size. <sigh>

Thanks for the help!

Lance

Lance Reynolds wrote:
> Using SuSE Pro 9.3...can't burn a data dvd with K3b. Cd's are no
> problem. The process says it completes successfully but it only
> takes about 5 seconds to do it. Can't create a dvd iso either...does
> the same thing. Is this possible? Surely it is.
>
> Lance

I have similar trouble. I tracked my problem to permissions of
/dev/hdc
being wrong.
after boot up, /dev/hdc premissions when viewed, are shown as

=====================
owner: read and write
group : forbidden
others: forbidden

ownership
User : user1
Group: disk
=====================

(I cannot recall if it originaly installed as owner user1, I probably
changed that from a root sign on early on, once I realised what to do).

I find I have to change this to

owner: read and write
group : read and write
others: read and write

I have not yet learned how to get the appropriate permissions built in
when booting, - on the to-do list (chmod? fstab?)


BTW:
The below are taken from entries in yast :-)

the dvdrw drive is

lite-on dvdrw sohw-1673s
device /dev/hdc
link /dev/dvdrecorder
mount point /media/dvdrecorder

FWIW the CD ROM drive is

pioneer dvd-rom dvd-115
device /dev/hdd
mount point /media/dvd

however, I note that yast there says:
' If there are entries for the name of the link and the mount point
displayed, the CD-ROM is integrated into the system. Integration into
the system means that a symbolic link (e.g., /dev/cdrom, /dev/dvd, etc.)
to the device name (e.g., /dev/hdc, /dev/sr0, etc.) is present, an entry
in /etc/fstab exists, a subdirectory below /media is present, and
possibly a kernel command-line parameter is provided (for IDE devices).
'

Even though these entries are in yast apparently correctly, from a clean
install, the
permissions for dvd writing are inadequate for dvd burning and need my
attention.
--
ac

After serious contemplation, on or about Tuesday 23 August 2005 9:38 am
lanceNO@SPAMsatco.biz wrote:

> Here's the debug output from trying to create just an iso image. In the
> mkisofs section, it states that the file I'm trying to burn is too large.
> The actual file size is 4.3(4,613,734,400) so it seems ok.
>
> Lance
>
> Devices

I notice that if one wants to make a ISO of a TAR file, the ISO doubles. So
if your original file is more than 2 GB then it will expand beyond the 4.3
GB limit.

I had the same problem with K3b too. I discovered the possible solution
after installing Mondo to make complete system backups. Mondo takes the
TAR files and makes ISO files which turn out to be slightly more than
double the TAR files.

Perhaps K3b uses growisofs to create ISO files as an intermediary step. In
that case your originals files must be half of what you think.


--
Later,
Darrell Stec darstec@neo.rr.com

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